A heavy Purdey double rifle with bas-relief carving by the Brown brothers. the caliber is .600. Appropriately, the rifle is engraved with a theme of the Big Five.



The left lockplate. A Cape buffalo surprised by a hooded cobra, while the king of beasts looks on from the detonators. Also notice the crocodile.


The right lockplate with two rhinos and a leopard on the side-clipped detonator.



A lion is represented on the butt cap of this .600 Purdey.




An elephant with skin real enough to put egrets to flight!




A private joke between patron and craftsman appears in great detail at the foot of the elephant. A boo rat, so well executed that its eye is visible, represents the client who was born in the year of the rat and the engraver, whose nickname is "boomer."


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Beautiful engraving, but a bit much for my tastes.

The crocodile eludes me...

In the trees?

Hate to say it....but those buffalo look a bit cartoonish.

I would be horrified if I spent the money on a 600 Purdy and the engraving looked like that...

I'd stick to rose and scroll or anthacus.